RLV 4/10/2015 + RSP Film Room No.38 w/Sigmund Bloom

RSP Film Room No.38 – Tre McBride w/Sigmund Bloom

Apologies to George Kritikos who asked me about McBride in the DLF Q&A, but I politely nixed the question so I could wait to discuss him the first time here. McBride is a player I believe could have kidnapped Amari Cooper, donned a Crimson Tide uniform, and–if he knew the offense–could have tricked most of the football-watching public.

However, more than just a show about McBride, Bloom and I delve into concepts that are essential to evaluation:

Fast processing of knowledge.

How fluidity and fast processing contributes to Integrated Technique.

When small-school competition doesn’t matter and when (maybe) it does.

Why football performance is as much music and literature as it is science and strategy.

Where McBride’s game displays a potentially strong fit in an timing offense.

For a complete list of RSP Film Room episodes, check out this page. Future guests on the horizon include Dan Hatman, Kyle Crabbs, Will Hewlett, and Jordan Plocher.

All Rookies Can Have Bad Moments In the NFL: Ask Ray Lewis (and Frank Wycheck)

Listens – I wanna go . . .

The Return of Reads Listens Views

If you’re new to the Rookie Scouting Portfolio blog, welcome. Until last December, I used Fridays to post links to pieces that I’ve found personally compelling or to content I haven’t read yet. I moved last spring and I had a lot adjustments to make, including finding an adequate way to build and maintain a growing library of college game games. I had to drop something from my schedule and it mean Reads Listens Views was the first to go.

Now that the 2015 Rookie Scouting Portfolio is available for download and Eric Stoner is contributing content to the blog, I’ll take RLV out of mothballs. It may not be a weekly post like it was, but it will be back in some capacity.

You may not like everything listed here, but you’re bound to like something.

Seriously, this analysis is worth the price of the 2015 RSP package alone, but you also get the post-draft addendum with your purchase of the RSP. Remember 10 percent of each sale is donated to Darkness to Light to prevent sexual abuse in communities across the United States. While that alone should get you to download the RSP package, do it because you will be blown away with the detail and insight of the analysis and content. It’s why the RSP has grown so much in the past 10 years.

Views – The Hummingbird: A Marvel of Nature’s Engineering (H/T to Keith Overton)

Views – Marcus Dupree Highlights

Reads (Life In General)

The Dumb South: What to Make of Regional Difference – The South can be hilarious. The South can be terribly, terribly racist. And so can the rest of the country. Harvard gets away with passing as a perfectly progressive institution when it simply is not, laughing at those idiotic and shameful “others” all the while.

Please Don’t Thank Me For My Service – Who doesn’t want to be thanked for their military service? Many people, it turns out. Mike Freedman, a Green Beret, calls it the “thank you for your service phenomenon.” To some recent vets — by no stretch all of them — the thanks comes across as shallow, disconnected, a reflexive offering from people who, while meaning well, have no clue what soldiers did over there or what motivated them to go, and who would never have gone themselves nor sent their own sons and daughters.